ISS has developed a portfolio of business connectors to offer clients affordable integration with existing business planning and logistics systems. Implementing BabelFish Business Connectors means operators and managers alike are able to succinctly access crucial data from multiple areas and present it, via the BabelFish Portal in a single view.

BabelFish is used to provide a simplified, integrated and graphical view of vital operational data, it is configured to link towards relevant sources, logically group and display data in a way that mirrors the organisations real time operational environment. The ability to link directly to operational intelligence, key corporate and management indicators and process control systems makes BabelFish a key asset to an organisation.

Business Connectors allows for connection between BabelFish and systems such as Microsoft BizTalk, SAP, JD Edwards, Maximo and Schlumberger Avocet. These Business Connectors enable organisations to orchestrate disparate applications and Web Services into business processes in order to manage the enterprise. The ability to quickly build and deploy these processes in an open standards-based manner delivers critical functionality for developing a  Service Orientated Architecture.

The benefits of implementing BabelFish as the integration engine to deliver data, means increased effectiveness and efficiency whilst maintaining flexibility and optimising operational performance. Business Connectors can improve analysis reporting on assets and productivity, reduce costs in planning stages and increase profitability by allowing operators to spend more time on the job. Collaborating an organisations business assets delivers a one stop shop for information, decreasing the costs of time spent searching for data and ensuring the data returned is the single source of the truth.



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